The Cape Elizabeth Ocean Avenue Society (A Plane Tree in Provence)

By Arlene Rains Graber

Description:

The women from A Plane Tree in Provence are home and ready to make new changes in their lives. Penny Wilson, owner of the Designers Pen needlework shop in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, lives in a large rambling home with her husband, Michael, and two sons. Life is good until Penny accidentally spots Michael with another woman. An affair? Or a harmless encounter? Unraveling an explanation is not easy, but Penny has her friends in The Cape Elizabeth Ocean Avenue Society to lean on. While she wants her marriage to succeed will she ever be able to forgive Michael if he is indeed having an affair. The group’s lives are intertwined with challenges. Wendy is cut from her acting job at Summer Theatre, Sarah’s decision to get back in the swing of taking care of her home and cooking goes south, Vernie is under an enormous amount of stress at the Portland Symphony, and Rose develops a fondness for the carpenter who is renovating her home. As the weeks go by, Penny is also plagued by medical issues, which she decides are a result of her emotional state. But are they? Perhaps it is something entirely different.

Book Takeaway:

Sometimes what we see is not reality but blurred circumstances.

Why the author wrote this book:

From the first book, A Plane Tree in Provence, this character was going through an emotional time with her marriage and needed to work it out.